…7/4-09: freedom…it’s everything!

68º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…Tucumcari teen struck by taser dart in the head; body found cut in two near Gallup has been identified; fireworks display outside NM Museum in Alamogordo; Brad picked a good number of tomatoes from our rooftop garden; win a Mercedes at Buffalo Thunder resort; coolest high temp for the day yesterday, only 78º; 70 mile oil pipeline will go through the Navajo Nation; copter floating three feet above the Isotopes stadium's grass, giving it a quick blow-dry; limited Sunday bus schedule today; record attendance at Isotopes game, more than when Manny Ramirez made appearances; Gallup police rescue man who feel forty feet from a ledge; two pairs of rare spotted owls give birth; ABQ is a good site for film crews, they recently taped a children’s TV show; Freedom Fourth celebration; woman struck & killed by drunk driver, the crash took place on Arenal RD in SW ABQ;

seven deaths from fireworks in 2008; Detroit’s mayor is firing the city’s police chief; child died as family prays in hotel room for his recovery; one person killed, several people injured when fireworks explode in a parked truck on NC island; caffeine is not good to drink during pregnancy; man set off fireworks inside a toilet inside an Arby’s in DE; more people say Michael Jackson was a good parent; CA residents do not like rapid rail running through their neighborhoods, suggest parts of the route be underground; there are ten people in the AK GOV’s ‘inner circle’; even the state’s Lieu. GOV was caught off guard: did Palin choose to step down, or did she leave instead of facing a scandal…is she abandoning AK, or just calling it quits in the political game; Jennifer Hudson will also sing at Michael Jackson’s ceremony; Obama vs. Colin Powell over big GOVT; Statue of Liberty crown reopens, tickets to the top are booked until the end of the year, the view of NYC through one of the twenty-five windows; Malia Obama turns eleven years old;

N Korea fired its seventh missile; China angered by these launches; Michelle Obama: the First Lady of Fashion in Russia, but advised to stay out of the limelight; first time for Biden to visit Iraq as VP; Ahmadinejad wants to talk with Obama;